Rail passengers are to be given stronger rights to claim for out-of-pocket expenses, including taxi fares, hotels and missed flights, after train cancellations for which rail companies are to blame....

SNOW will continue to pack in from the North Sea and will cause severe travel disruption on Thursday, a Weatherquest forecast has warned as rail companies cancel hundreds of trains, flights are delayed and roads turn to ice....

ARE there any circumstances in which the rail companies in this country will not take advantage of their hard-pressed passengers to feather their own nests? Hardly had the forecast of snow been aired before services were being cancelled and commuters mass...

THE UK's largest rail companies have been accused of profiting from passengers' misery as they pocket millions of pounds in compensation while Britons are hit by cancellations and delays caused by blizzards and sub-zero temperatures....